Dracula Untold Blu-ray ReviewMar 03 2015 01:15 AMDracula Untold games its thrones on Blu-ray with an edition that presents this leaden reboot of the Dracula franchise in solid high definition, with an army... Read More

One can only hope that those caps are off 'cause they look dreadful. Did someone soak the film in urine?

They look like they are returning to the original colours, it seems to match the first two films and unlike the Italian release there is no edge enhancement that i can see but bags more fine detail is visible, i'll buy this when it's sold separately.

They look like they are returning to the original colours, it seems to match the first two films and unlike the Italian release there is no edge enhancement that i can see but bags more fine detail is visible, i'll buy this when it's sold separately.

Ha, what "original colours"? I think I'd remember if I saw a film looking like that in the sixties, but it is sharper, so of course a must buy (not!)...& it is sold separately in the UK, & (for now) that includes Scotland.Not looking good for Giu La Testa.

Ha, what "original colours"? I think I'd remember if I saw a film looking like that in the sixties, but it is sharper, so of course a must buy (not!)...& it is sold separately in the UK, & (for now) that includes Scotland.Not looking good for Giu La Testa.

You might be right but it matches the look of the first two releases, the Italian version has the same look as this one but also has edge enhancement, it's a case of making choices and taking your poison, the old release is atrocious, i think this is it for this movie, being a fan of it i need to buy it, i doubt there will be another version that comes out looking different.

I'll have to check Amazon out, i didn't know we were getting a separate release.

:Fun Movie Quotes:

"A good body with a dull brain is as cheap as life itself"

"Maybe it's a sheep dog... let's keep going"

"Please doctor, I've got to ask this. It sounds like, well, just as though you're describing some form of super carrot"

I'll wait until I get them, as I don't know anything about the caps and who posted them. IF the color is as it is in the caps, then no, the dye transfer 35mm print I owned looked nothing like that - it had BLUE skies and very detailed color, as did all of Leone's films.

Just had a look at a, hrm, "preview copy" - and it looks exactly like those caps. Not a blue sky to be found.

Didn't they make a fuss about getting things right for the extended edition with blue skies a few years back, probably back in the DVD days, seems strange they would then muck it up, i mean gorgeous detail in the new edition but screwed up colours, whereas the old edition presumably had the colours right but DNR meant the detail was gone, the consumer can't win.

I have cancelled my order for the set. I'll wait until Fox and MGM can get it right. I am very disappointed and I hope Fox and MGM pull the set until they can get it right. All of the films should be remastered from the new 4K scans.

At this point, it definitely looks like I'm just going to wait until they release the full set properly restored. I already have the original trilogy release on Blu-ray, I can wait. There's no way I want to watch The Good, The Bad and The Ugly in yellow-vision.

Yeah, I'll likely cancel my preorder before the release date. Holding out a slim hope that it won't include the "yellow remaster" but if that's what's being included, there's no way I'm paying for this.

[color=rgb(40,40,40);font-family:'Merriweather Sans', sans-serif;background-color:rgb(242,242,242);]I have cancelled my order for the set. I'll wait until Fox and MGM can get it right. I am very disappointed and I hope Fox and MGM pull the set until they can get it right. All of the films should be remastered from the new 4K scans.[/color]

[color=rgb(40,40,40);font-family:'Merriweather Sans', sans-serif;background-color:rgb(242,242,242);]I am going to wait for actual reviews before even considering buying this set.[/color]

[color=rgb(40,40,40);font-family:'Merriweather Sans', sans-serif;background-color:rgb(242,242,242);]To hear that another one of the films just got a new 4K scan and isn't even included[/color]

[color=rgb(40,40,40);font-family:'Merriweather Sans', sans-serif;background-color:rgb(242,242,242);]as such in this set is alarming.[/color]

Caps-a-holic have a comparison up and it shows the same dreadful colour scheme (and their caps are, in my experience, always 100% correct).

Yuk! You can see how yellow kills blue in those caps. They'll be a few thousand words posted on the net about this. Ah, if only the Italian release had an English soundtrack. A lot of people will buy & love it because with the 4K scan it's sharper & you can see the grain. Ironically, Leone couldn't have seen that extra fine detail, as there was no way to look at the original negative & see a pos. image then, & he wouldn't have seen any grain, & would have complained if he had!

Caps-a-holic have a comparison up and it shows the same dreadful colour scheme (and their caps are, in my experience, always 100% correct).

Yes, this all but confirms the yellow issue until someone gets their hands on the actual disc. A simple comparison of the pre- and post-restoration screenshots shows that there's so much more detail and natural grain texture, all wasted because of a yellow wash.

Here's a good example:

Pre-restoration Blu-ray:

Remastered Blu-ray:

Just look at that sky! I don't remember TGTBTU being a remake of this film: